Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated entertainment has recently grown in popularity. The topic of AI content has always been a polarizing one, but with AI entertainment now drawing in millions of likes on platforms like TikTok, it has sparked more discussion than ever.
Many Camas High School (CHS) students and teachers, however, stay unamused by the premise of AI entertainment.
“I don’t find AI-generated creative content to be all that interesting. It’s boring because creative content is about the connection with another person,” CHS English teacher Adam Webber said. “What’s the point if you can’t connect with another person through their creative work?”
“I think a lot of AI content is slop, especially the new AI Fruit Love Island on TikTok,” CHS junior Colin Chui said. “Lots of AI content is undermining human progress and development.”
“Every single time I see AI content, I scroll,” CHS senior Aria Bent said. ”Although sometimes I find myself entertained in a terrible way when I realize that something I watched was AI. Like, I can’t believe that got past me, and it’s kind of fascinating to me.”
Despite these remarks on AI entertainment, there still seem to be several people at CHS who consume this type of content.
“I know my grandpa is right now watching AI-generated stuff online, and a lot of my friends watch various AI things and send them to me,” Bent said.
“I have many friends who find AI content very funny, and they watch it daily,” Chui said.
Bent talked about how she believes AI content is here to stay.
“I hope that it’s just a fad, but I doubt AI content will go away. Based on how much it’s grown in the past year, I think it’s only going to get better, and it is here to weasel its way into the industry, unfortunately,” Bent said. “There are AI actors now that have been made; there’s AI in music, and I think it’s just going to keep weaseling its way further into all the content that we all consume.”
However, Webber thinks that it is a trend that will fade away.
“OpenAI just announced that they’re shutting down Sora, their video creation platform, because it’s just not profitable for them. Which sort of tells me that some of these creative tools are sort of at a peak of interest from people,” Webber said. “It’s entirely possible that it could continue to go up, but I feel the novelty of it will start to wear down as people start to realize they can’t make a connection with another person; it’s just hollow.”
